Author: Publisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 0742698165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The North American Indian. Volume 16 - The Tiwa. The Keres. ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 0742698165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The North American Indian. Volume 17 - The Tewa. The Zuni. ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 0742698173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
American Holocaust
Author: David E. StannardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199838984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.
American Indian Languages
Author: Lyle CampbellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195140508
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.
The North American Indian
Author: Edward S. CurtisPublisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783836550567
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over the course of 30 years Edward S. Curtis exhaustively documented America's first inhabitants. Follow along on his visits to 80 American Indian tribes from the Mexican border to the Bering Strait--working up to 16 hours a day to gain their trust and document their traditional way of life as it was already beginning to die out. This unabridged, ...
The North American Indian
Author: Frederick Webb HodgePublisher:
ISBN: 9780403084005
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The U.S. Library of Congress presents an online exhibit of the published photogravure images from the volumes of "The North American Indian" by American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952). Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifestyles of eighty Indian tribes.
Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Author: Cecil H. BrownPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195121619
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice, scissors, soap, and Saturday) in the vocabularies of 292 Amerindian languages and dialects spoken from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The first book ever to undertake such a large and systematic cross-language investigation, Brown's work provides fresh insights into general processes of lexical change and development, including those involving language universals and diffusion.
The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World
Author: Brian M. FaganPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500510506
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Describes various issues in mythology and prehistoric and ancient history, from the Garden of Eden to the effects of meteor impacts, including tombs, writing systems, and the fall of civilizations, and suggests explanations.
The North American Indian
Author: Edward S. CurtisPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781548846879
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The North American Indian, Vol. 1 By Edward S. Curtis
Dirt Road Home
Author: Cheryl SavageauPublisher: Willimantic, Conn. : Curbstone Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Savageau writes of poverty, mixed ancestry, nature and family in poems that are simultaneously tough and tender. --Curbstone Press Savageau's poetry is stirring, imagistic and powerful. --Ms. Magazine.